It’s that time of the year when resolutions abound, new hobbies are chosen, and there are 365 fresh days ready to be filled with adventures. If one of your resolutions is to learn a new language, then here are my five top tips for success!

Around a year ago, I wrote a blogpost on the role of languages in a Brexit world, but I’d now like to explore the role that languages can play in your life as a learner. So, if you’re at all hesitant to start learning another language, read on to find out just how many benefits bilingualism could bring to you...

It may not be entirely obvious with our weather, but summer is finally here, and school’s out. After the stress of exams, studying may be the last thing on your child’s mind, but keeping their brains engaged and the knowledge within it fresh is key - but how do we do that?

The heated panic of summer exams is over, you and your students are still alive (although possibly in possession of a few more grey hairs), and summer is on the horizon. Sounds perfect, right? Well, if you’re a self-employed tutor, it’s a little more complicated than that.

In a post-Brexit and Trump world, where borders and walls appear to be rising more than being knocked down, languages are more important than ever. Their necessity and power to create and foster not only social, but economic and business relationships is now at the fore of the many benefits they provide, and I will explore their importance in this post.

With all its benefits, tutoring can be a fickle game. The masters of our own destiny, we not only have to source and maintain our clients and income, but we also have to plan ahead for the waves that the school year can create in our income. So just what is the best way to overcome these ups and downs? I shall attempt to investigate…

Tutoring, in my eyes, has entered a new phase in recent years. Where once it was the side plate to the main dish of regular schooling. With this in mind, I thought it would be interesting to examine just how these two worlds coexist – or clash – within the sphere of education. Are ‘teaching’ and ‘tutoring’ a match made in heaven?